Newspapers PCM become free internetprovider
Subscribers of De peoples paper, General Newspaper, NRC trade Journal, Fidelity and The Watchword get offered stapsgewijs from the second quarter this year free internet entry. This reports PCM in a press message.
The technical aspects of the internet offer let PCM completely about at MCI WorldCom. According to Marches Kleyn, project manager ICT of PCM Interactive Media (PIM),, the publisher take off the service Virtual ISP. Such services are offered by various telecomcompanies. Everybody that the money for it aboutheeft can play so providertje.
Score on content
PCM do not says score to want then also to offer through entry, but with content. The papers will all separately a portalsite develop on which a broad scale at services are offered. Customers will receive news per e-mail and get possibly entry till archives of the concerning newspaper.
Also other webserviceen lie shoot in it. The peoples paper experiments for instance already with an online auction. Via the peoples paper Webshop is the all only time possible books and other productions of the paper to order. Also columns advertisements, the 1 in 3 minis, can via the web be given up.
Online want to earn
Next to such webserviceen, the dagbladsites will become decked out to earn with possibilities for PCM money. NRC and Watchword have plan for instance for the selling of theater and concert hoppers via their sites.
Other tested constructions get also a spot on the PCM webportalen. Users will can order after the reading of a book review with single mouse click the book. PCM collects then a percentage. This construction is possible with each product that online available is.
Internet editings not cheerfully
The internet editings of the newspapers must zorgdragen for the content of the sites. Sources by single of the concerning papers report that the editings do not stand to cheer. They would have had to become no voice in the decision-making ISP.
The present sites already with difficulty by are to be worked, stand late a complete new portal. Further is complained about the little gebruiksvriendelijke webpublicatiesysteem and the bureaucratic trunks rag.
Furthermore are not the webserviceen of the papers fixed renewed to name, mainly in comparison with American colleagues, single Dutch internetproviders and competitor De Telegraph. If one on content the sites a shape change will want to go must score undergo.
Thin offer
Who an internet subscription by PCM only an inbelaccount and an e-mailadres gets takes. On term, the users get also space for a homepage. What e-mailadressen reserved are for the internet subscribers is not yet known, each paper may that separate decide.
On the new webportalen naturally also advertisements come to stand. PCM has closed specialized for that reason a contract with 24/7 the Netherlands, a desk in webvertising.